So this was a daunting assignment. I was overwhelmed mainly because there was no blunt tutorial on how to use Audacity and the steps that follow to make the assignment for the 5 sound story. But, using my resources, I looked at the DS106 Handbook and found out how to layer sounds and use Audacity in general. Once I watched that, I was able to put all of the clips together and tweak everything just the way I wanted.

I searched for sound effects on freesounds and saved those to a file. Once in Audacity, I imported all of the audio files into the program. I deleted portions of the clips, moved them around, and pieced everything together the way I wanted it.

Here’s how it ended up:

The story is that a woman is going to a concert. She’s walking down the street outside, and her heels are hitting the sidewalk, she opens the door to the concert and immediately she’s drawn into the noise of the crowd. She hears the soundcheck going on and then the roar and applause of the crowd as the performer takes the stage and begins to play.

I created a story with 5 sounds I hope that you enjoy it took me a few days to even decide what I was going to do.

My DS106 Radio bumper, this took me a while to even figure out what I was going to do. I listened to a lot of the ones which other ds106ers posted and got some ideas from that. I ended up just taking a song from iTunes  and recorded myself saying the DS106 Radio part. I had some fun with the the effects though it was pretty hard getting it to have the effect I wanted. I used Audacity but am a virgin to most all audio editing software so it was a lot of trial and error and I still didn’t end up with the effect I wanted. I tried everything I could and played with all the features, at least the ones I could find, so gave up and this is what I ended with.

This one was pretty fun, making a short audio clip telling a story in nothing but sound effects. I got all these effects from freesounds. I didn’t know what I was going to do at first but then I remembered doing the 5card draw story telling thing which gave me the idea of making an audio version of that story. Finding the sounds that I liked for the story was difficult. Its like having what you want in your head but you can never quite figure out how to get it out into the world. I was pleased with the results though.

Like many of our ds106 assignments, I was very skeptical about the sound effect story assignment, but I ended up having a lot of fun with it! This assignment really made me feel so much more comfortable using audacity. I found all of my sound effects on freesound.org. I downloaded the sound effects in the order that I wanted to tell my story in. Then I loaded them and trimmed them down one by one using Audacity. I played around with it for a while until I had a final product I was happy with.

I thought forever about what to do my sound effect story about, I wanted to do something that involved a lot of sounds (obviously). I decided to create a story of someone’s typical morning. I believe I used about 10 different sound effects. My story begins with someone snoring, then an alarm going off. Next you can hear someone rolling out of bed and walking to the bathroom. They take a shower, then they pull back the shower curtain and flush the toilet. It amazes me how sound effects can tell a story. I think my view of digital storytelling has finally changed! IT IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!

I really enjoyed the ds106 radio bumper assignment! Who knew creating a radio bumper could be so fun! I loved listening to all the sound effects on freesound.org. I was constantly changing my bumper when I came across a sound I liked more. I am finally getting the hang of Audacity, I think. I really love my finished bumper product. I love the “Do it now” part, I feel like it is very ds106 appropriate. I decided on not a full on musical bumper because when I am listening to the radio I like it when they have a little slogan or “order” tied into theirs.